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Humans And Violence
Category: Science Asked by: starfishii-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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13 Apr 2006 09:24 PDT
Expires: 13 May 2006 09:24 PDT Question ID: 718534 |
Are humans psychologically prone to violence? Is there a part of the human brain that makes us violent creatures by nature? What is the difference between culture?s partake in violence in our lives, and what we would feel by nature regardless? |
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Re: Humans And Violence
From: corruptsoul-ga on 17 Apr 2006 23:25 PDT |
Yes humans are prone to violence, it's a result of being forced to exist within large groups. Social pressures such as your false class consiousness make you violent, mainly towards yourself however these feelings are exteriorised when no more can be taken, similar to a dog that is hurt, you feel compleled to strike at anyone who gets close to your pain. It realy depends on what you define as violence, punching your brother or sister in the head, for example, whilst beeing perceived as violent is undoubtably funny in the right circumstances. Anyway not all violence is bad. Relatively speaking there is no peace without war, because you have no comparison. In the same way violence is mearly the oposite of ... non-violence. |
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Re: Humans And Violence
From: quinkin-ga on 19 Apr 2006 21:52 PDT |
Humans and indeed all higher order animals are prone to violence, however it is nothing to do with our social existence. In fact social animals tend to develop control schemes to stop violence escalating to the detriment of the species, so in many ways social animals tend to develop "stylised" displays as a way to avoid unnecessary conflict. The true root of violence appears to be the so-called "fight or flight" response - a combination of the sympathetic/para-sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamus/adrenal axis. The sympathetic nervous system is the system that elevates heart rate and other similar physiological effects when you are given a fright. Your body is in essence prepared to maximise its performance in a combat, injury, extreme exercise situation. The para-sympathetic nervous system is what of course the converse, used to calm your body back down when the situation is assessed as no longer threatening, hence minimising damage to the body and conserving energy for a later crisis. The Hypothalamus is often associated with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) whereby the hypothalamus (responsible for translating extreme emotions into suitable physical responses) becomes over-sensitised. This results in extreme over-reaction to small non-threatening stimuli - be it the ex-soldier who cowers at the sound of a helicopter or the abused child who has reacts to affection with aggression. This affect has been linked by some researchers to the degree of dissasociation the victim inccurs during the crisis, those who are most aware and conscious of the incident are the least likely to have future issues with PTSD. A few introductory resources can be found here, but there are very good in depth discussions of many of these issues freely available: http://allpsych.com/psychology101/brain.html http://www.hhmi.org/cgi-bin/askascientist/highlight.pl?kw=&file=answers%2Fgeneral%2Fans_003.html http://www.answers.com/topic/fight-or-flight-response http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=161ia6dwnna8m?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal+axis&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc05b |
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Re: Humans And Violence
From: lazerpotatoe-ga on 01 May 2006 21:11 PDT |
You can also look at it from the perspective of MBTI personality types: http://www.personalitypage.com/info.html There is always conflict between people who are more ordered(J) types, and people who are perceiving/chaotic(P). The Intuitive(N) vs Sensing(S) types also conflict strongly. But, it takes all types to make the world go around. You just have to hope that they can learn to respect each other. Cheers, LP |
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